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ANOTHER WAY TO PLAY
2000 American Book Award winner
1997 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award "for Excellence in Literature"
just another ex-jazz-musician/proto-rapper/Jersey-Irish-poet-actor/print-junkie/film-raptor/beat-hipster-"white Negro"-rhapsodizer/ex-hippie-punk-'60s-radical-organizer's take on all things cultural, political, spiritual & aggrandizing
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UPCOMING EVENTS
TBA
SAY IT AGAIN: An Autobiography In Sonnets
CLICK ON IMAGES BELOW FOR LINKS TO ORDER (OR EMAIL ME FOR A SIGNED COPY OF ANY TITLES BELOW)
ANOTHER WAY TO PLAY
THE VILLAGE SONNETS
SWING THEORY
LOST ANGELS
IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE
IT'S NOT NOSTALGIA
2000 American Book Award winner
MARCH 18, 2003
WHAT YOU FIND THERE
CANT BE WRONG
1997 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award "for Excellence in Literature"
OF
ROCKY DIES YELLOW
HOLLYWOOD MAGIC
CATCH MY BREATH
ATTITUDE
some recordings of my reading from some of the books above
- PUMA PERL AND ME READING 2022
- interviewed by Grace Cavalieri for The Poet and The Poem Series
- interviewed by E. Ethelbert Miller on DC's WPFW, scroll down to On The Margins April26th 9AM
- Don Yorty filmed me reading "Sports Heroes, Cops and Lace" in my pad 2015
- Don Yorty filmed me reading "Love Never Dies" at KGB Bar 2015
- 8/11/2014 INTERVIEW/READING FRIGGIN' FABULOUS RADIO (PART ONE)
- INTERVIEW/READING FRIGGIN' FABULOUS RADIO (PART TWO)
- 1997 NPR ("BOOKWORM") INTERVIEW (by Michael Silverblatt)/READING
- 1990 "Poetry in Motion" reading of "The Healing"
- VARIOUS READINGS ON AUDIO AND VIDEO FROM 1977 TO RECENT AS ARCHIVED ON PENNSOUND
- 2008 LOCAL JERSEY TV READING/INTERVIEW WITH ME & POET JOSE FUNES
- TOM WILSON'S LALLY/OBAMA MASHUP
other sites where my work is discussed
- I Might Die Of Love For You/Burt Kimmelman reviews Another Way To Play
- JERSEY INDIE on my Leap Day 2016 reading
- Times Times 3/Swing Theory review
- Countdown To Main Street "Swing Theory"
- Best American Poetry Blog/David Lehman reviews Swing Theory
- Times Times 3
- Countdown To Main Street
- Jacket/Burt Kimmelman interviews me
- the parent du jour
- L.A. Examiner/Yvonne de la Vega interviews me
- Espresso Bongo/Jerome Sala on my writing
- fait accompli (scroll down)/Nick Piambino on my writing
- The Best Am. Poetry Blog/Brain Surgery T.Winch
- The Best American Poetry Blog
- doug lang's lally post
- doug lang's dc poetry history
- dc poetry history
- Vanitas/Libellum site reviews
- Last Night at the KGB Bar
- wikipedia as "Michael Lally (poet)"
- poem on The Best American Poetry Blog
- The Innisfree Poetry Journal
- AS AN ACTOR: YouTube
- IMDb (as Michael David Lally actor/with some incorrect info)
About Me
- Lally
MY LIFE 2
When I was 10,
I thought I was "Irish,"
even though I was
born in the USA.
When I was 20,
I thought I was "Black,"
even though my skin
is pink & freckled,
my hair is straight,
and I have no
African ancestry.
When I was 30,
I thought I was "queer,"
even though I was
married and had
two children, and
most of my fantasies
& obsessions & com-
pulsions & attractions
were and had always
been (up until then)
about women.
When I was 40,
I thought I was a
"movie star," even
though the movies
were terrible, and
I was terrible in
them, and almost
no one knew them,
or who I might
have been in them.
When I was 50,
I thought I was
"enlightened," even
though I wasn't.
But of course I was
and am—enlightened,
as I was and still am
—an Irish-Black-
Queer-Movie-Star.
CHECK OUT THESE BLOGS/SITES
- Rachel E. Diken
- @haikuavenue
- Don Yorty
- NauenThen
- BIRTH OF THE COOL
- EAST OF WEST L.A.
- COUNTDOWN TO MAIN STREET
- John Clarke
- Times Times 3
- TOM CLARK Beyond The Pale
- Leslie Greene
- The Best American Poetry (blog)
- Silliman's Blog
- Ken McCollough poet
- NOTES
- espresso bongo
- IFSF publishing
- E-NOTES
- bobby miller photos
- The Allen Ginsberg Project
- If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats
- Hullabaloo
- DANGEROUS MINDS
- Friggin Fabulous Radio
- the year of yellow butterflies (the blog)
- A LONGHOUSE BIRDHOUSE
- BELGIAN WAFFLE
- Really Bad Movies
- Vanitas Magazine blog site
- MY EYE AND I
- KINDSIGHT
- PAUL'S ART
- THE TEACHER'S VIEW
- fait accompli
- Trying To Be Cool
- McPherson's Lament
- Zuckerman's Journal
- Cord Keller's Albums
- Bill DeNoyelles: Ports of Entry
- douglangsfilmblog
- douglang'sdcpoetryblog
- MY ALASKAN ADVENTURES
- TERENCE WINCH
- Rain Worthington, Composer
- MAUREEN OWEN HOME PAGE
- Nikki Nash
- erictrules.com
- JOE BRAINARD
- MIND HONEY
- PENNSOUND
posts by rough categories (and some in more than one)
- personal history (1668)
- politics (1641)
- movies (910)
- poetry (766)
- PHOTOGRAPHS (754)
- history (641)
- not to be forgotten or underrated (590)
- quotes (576)
- not to be missed or overlooked (557)
- music (496)
- TV (402)
- family history (228)
- fiction and other prose (224)
- lists (222)
- Art (217)
- economics (203)
- spirituality (201)
- internet (129)
- humor (120)
- stage (101)
- science (72)
- media (67)
- education (66)
- non fiction (64)
- overrated (53)
- dance (44)
- "fashion" (22)
- fate (16)
- greetings (3)
- personalhistory (3)
- m (2)
Blog Archive
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- QUICK UPDATE
- TONY CURTIS R.I.P.
- MICHAEL GIZZI R.I.P.
- BLUSTER AND FAUX SENSITIVITY, THE RIGHT COMBO
- TIME FOR ANOTHER QUOTE
- CONCORD PARTY POST BRAIN-OP OBSERVATION
- HOWL: THE MOVIE
- PPS
- BOARDWALK EMPIRE
- AND THIS
- HERE'S A GOOD QUOTE
- ANOTHER STRANGE POST BRAIN SURGERY DEVELOPMENT
- PS
- UNFORTUNATELY, IT'S NOT ABOUT TRUTH
- HMMMM ONCE AGAIN
- TIME FOR A BLAKE QUOTE OR TWO
- THE RICH GET RICHER
- TEN MONTHS SINCE BRAIN SURGERY
- TAXES AND ME
- THE AMERICAN
- AND FOR A HUMOROUS INTERLUDE
- TO PUT THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE
- PS TO RIMBAUD POST THREAD
- EDMUND WHITE'S RIMBAUD
- MICK LALLY R.I.P.
- JUST A FEW RECOVERY ACT STATS
- PAUL KRUGMAN: CORRECT AGAIN
- ANOTHER MUSICAL GATHERING IN THE 'SHIRE
- WINTER'S BONE
- EDUCATION IN NEW JERSEY
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14 comments:
Velma's truth:
"Quite frankly, I'm exhausted," Velma Hart told the president last week. "I'm exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for, and deeply disappointed with where we are right now."
The Republican Leadership's untruth:
can be found in the Congressional minutes and program transcripts everyday - too numerous to mention or dignify ...
And as Dr. Allen Wheelis (Behavioral Psychologist) states in many of his books - change is the most difficult challenge for human beings ...
I think Velma will be fine because of her truth ...
Disciple: "Master, what is truth?"
Master: "Walk on!"
Hamlet said fear of death (or in this case the "unknown") makes us "rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of." And of course Rilke's gem: "the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
Great point(s) and quotes H&Z. Love the Rilke one and don't remember reading it though I reread Rilke all the time. Where's it from Robert?
"Letters to a Young Poet" Michael, one of the key pieces of my life survival kit.
Mine too. Do you remember which translation? (and I'd love to see a list of what else is in that survival kit!)
Don't remember which translation, I have a few of them at home but I'm on the road. You can google it which is what I did here. Other than any Michael Lally book the survival kit included Enlightened Heart and Enlightened Mind and also The Tao te Ching - all edited/translated by Stephen Mitchell. The Art of Peace by Morehie Ueshiba, Being Peace and almost anything by Thich Nhat Hanh, One Hundred Poems from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth, Crow With No Mouth and any writings by or about Ikkyu, Rumi, the Haiku of Issa ("borrowing my house from insects, i slept"), music of Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Dylan, Van Morrison, Buffy St. Marie doing Neil Young's "Helpless", all of Alan Watts' recorded talks, Journey to Ixtlan, Rubber Soul, Hesse, a Leica M6 with 35mm and 75mm 1.4 lens and a hundred rolls of tri-x,dot-dot-dot...i'm sure i'm leaving lots of things out...
Should be "Morehei Ueshiba" (not Morehie), he founded Aikido. One of my favorite quotes from his book: "Your spirit is the true shield."
man, love that list robert. essentials. the one that struck me the most because I don't think I know it (though that might just be the post-brain-op thing) is Buffy doing "Helpless"—gotta add that to itunes!
Let me know what you think when you hear it Michael!
Robert, just downloaded the 1971 version from She Use to Wanna be a Ballerina, and can't stop smiling. Tough, but glorious. Just like Buffy. Thanks so much for bringing her powerful presence back into my life!
Robert,
I'm digging your survival list too. Buffy's "Helpless" is righteous! I wasn't aware of her version. As a bassist, the kind of groove her rhythm section is laying down is part of my survival kit. I find it immensely healing to play and listen to that kind of hypnotic repetition where the details get magnified by the stripping away of anything non-essential (kinda like your list).
Thanks for turning me on to that tune.
Thanks Miles for articulating the things about this song/version!
if only the essence of this survival list could be instilled in the minds of the Tee Party. Says Ikkyu: "So many people know, but don't know that they know..."
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